Automobile prices and protection: The U.S.-Japan trade restraint

We examine the effects of the U.S.-Japan trade restraint on automobile prices and quality upgrading, for both Japanese imports and American small cars. From April 1981 to April 1984 the suggested retail price of all Japanese models increased by 15.8 percent, or 5.3 percent per year. We find that nearly the entire amount of this rise can be explained by the upgrading of individual models. This upgrading may benefit consumers who would purchase a luxury import in any case, but harms those who desire the basic imports. In addition to upgrading, we conclude that a second cost of the trade restraint has been to prevent the yen depreciation from being passed onto American consumers, in terms of lower imported auto prices. For U.S. small cars we find a 9.1 percent rise in the suggested retail price, or 3 percent per year, with a fraction of this amount due to model upgrading. If the yen depreciation had led to lower import prices without the trade restraint, then we expect that U.S. auto prices would have been lower, too.     

雪夜森林边的思考——罗伯特·弗罗斯特诗歌思想管窥

罗伯特·弗罗斯特作为二十世纪美国最伟大的诗人之一,其思想和观点在其诗歌艺术创作之中表现出来.本文仅以其诗歌来窥视其观点和思想,为进一步的了解和研究弗罗斯特提供些许研究素材和浅薄的理论认识.     

Evaluating a private foundation's health program

Public policy decisions in health are increasingly difficult and expensive. Although there will never be enough information available, private foundations can help to bridge the most important gaps in knowledge. Larger foundations may also wish to respond to those who doubt the value of foundation activities. This article reviews the experiences over the past eight years of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in employing evaluation and related social research procedures in the planning and implementation of a major philanthropic effort to improve the health and medical care of Americans. Discussed are the still evolving Foundation evaluation framework, the unanticipated problems in undertaking specific evaluations, and the substantive findings of some of the studies.     

生态视阈下的《怀河河畔》赏析

《怀河河畔》(The Banks of Wye)由著名的“鞋匠诗人”“农民诗人”罗伯特·布卢姆菲尔德撰写,记录了诗人1807年于怀河河畔为期十日的旅程。通过描绘诗化的美景展现出怀河附近的风土人情,以及依怀河而居的农民在圈地运动前后的日常生活变化,表达诗人对资产阶级侵占农民土地这一暴行的批判和对农民阶层的同情。从作品内容出发,结合威廉·华兹华斯的著作《丁登寺》,在生态批评角度下,寻找圈地运动对怀河河畔居民的生活环境等方面的影响。     

赫德与葡萄牙强占澳门

鸦片战争后,葡萄牙多次无理要求清政府承认其永驻已长期强占的澳门未果。后来在英国人赫德的支持下,强迫清政府签订不平等条约承认葡萄牙永驻澳门。赫德为了完全夺取澳门地区的鸦片税厘,以达到控制清朝统治者使其为英国殖民利益服务的目的,在葡萄牙强占澳门的政治交易中,充当了一个损害中国主权的帮凶角色。     

罗伯特·达尔的政治平等理论及其发展前景

罗伯特·达尔认为,人类在能力、优点和机会等各个方面都不可能生来平等,而教育、环境和运气则令最初的不平等更加恶化,然而追求政治平等是人们内在平等价值的要求和公民能力的体现。影响政治平等的因素主要包括政治资源、技能和动机的分配,不可复归的时间限度,政治制度的规模,市场经济的盛行,国际体系的存在以及严重危机的必然性等。达尔认为,完全的政治平等是无法获得的,政治平等的未来存在着不确定性,而朝向理想迈进的努力是可行的。     

Neo-Gramscian Theory and Third World Violence: A Time for Broadening

Abstract

This article argues that the neo-Gramscian theory of hegemony is not as useful in explaining the rise and consolidation of the modern world system. In particular, while the force-consensus approach may indeed be relevant in examining relations among the Western countries, it is fundamentally wanting when applied to the third world. The two main reasons concern the persistent violence against the third world, and the dominance of race and racism as social forces in the production and maintenance of successive world orders. Neo-Gramscian theory needs to be broadened perhaps by paying attention to the relevant thinking in postcolonialism.     

战争创伤与后战争创伤——海明威与斯通小说对比研究

随着创伤文学在国内外的兴盛,创伤研究成为了一个新兴的文学理论研究方向。罗伯特.斯通与厄纳斯特.海明威分属两个不同时代的作家,在文学创作时针对不同方面的创伤各有所侧重。本文选取了他们各自比较有代表性的作品进行了深入细致的解理。首先分析各人作品中主人公不同的创伤遭遇,继而进行全面的梳理和对比研究,展示以迷惘为标志的海明威式"战争创伤"到以恐惧为主导的斯通式"后战争创伤"的阶段演进过程。最后从已得出的结论中,一窥两位大家的创伤文学创作与个人的成长经历间千丝万缕的联系,并挖掘出其心理状态和创作意图。     

罗伯特·弗洛斯特与他的田园诗歌

１９世纪的浪漫主义诗人认为自然界是关丽的、具有个性、可以与之交流，但弗洛斯特则以为自然界具有毁灭性且冷漠无情；后达尔文主义诗人认为宇宙是永恒的，人类与其的斗争是徒劳的，可弗洛斯特则常在人类与自然界之间设置屏障，赞美人类与后者争斗的勇气。     

INFORMATION INTERDEPENDENCE: Keohane and Nye's complex interdependence in the information age

A well-known and respected attempt to theorize interdependence in the field of international relations is complex interdependence. In Power and Interdependence , Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr define interdependence as reciprocal effects among actors resulting from 'international transactions - flows of money, goods, people and messages across international boundaries'. Though much research has been done on the effects of interdependence on the first three, the flows of messages have been studied less often. Keohane and Nye addressed the issue in a 1998 article in Foreign Affairs , discussing changes in the global environment resulting from the information age which have had an impact on their ideas. This article proposes to go deeper into complex interdependence. The world is becoming increasingly 'information interdependent' and this essay is an attempt to apply the assumptions and concepts presented in complex interdependence to the information age. In the final analysis, complex interdependence complements research from the field of communications, that information flows should be understood as underlying mechanisms and processes that facilitate contextual understanding of issues. It maintains the integrity of the assumptions of complex interdependence, while adding an understanding of the nature of information and information flows.